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Forgiveness was a preoccupation of writers in the Victorian period,
bridging literatures highbrow and low, sacred and secular. Yet if
forgiveness represented a common value and language, literary
scholarship has often ignored the diverse meanings and practices
behind this apparently uncomplicated value in the Victorian period.
"Forgiveness in Victorian Literature" examines how eminent writers
such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Oscar
Wilde wrestled with the religious and social meanings of
forgiveness in an age of theological controversy and increasing
pluralism in ethical matters. In novels, poems, and essays, Richard
Gibson here discovers unorthodox uses of the language of
forgiveness and delicate negotiations between rival ethical and
religious frameworks, which complicated forgiveness's traditional
powers to create or restore community and, within narratives,
offered resolution and closure. Illuminated by contemporary
philosophical and theological investigations of forgiveness, this
study also suggests that Victorian literature offers new
perspectives on the ongoing debate about the possibility and
potency of forgiving.
ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award Our written words carry weight.
Unfortunately, in today's cultural climate, our writing is too
often laced with harsh judgments and vitriol rather than careful
consideration and generosity. But might the Christian faith
transform how we approach the task of writing? How might we love
God and our neighbors through our writing? This book is not a style
guide that teaches you where to place the comma and how to cite
your sources (as important as those things are). Rather, it offers
a vision for expressing one's faith through writing and for
understanding writing itself as a spiritual practice that
cultivates virtue. Under the guidance of two experienced Christian
writers who draw on authors and artists throughout the church's
history, we learn how we might embrace writing as an act of
discipleship for today-and how we might faithfully bear the weight
of our written words.
Forgiveness was a preoccupation of writers in the Victorian period,
bridging literatures highbrow and low, sacred and secular. Yet if
forgiveness represented a common value and language, literary
scholarship has often ignored the diverse meanings and practices
behind this apparently uncomplicated value in the Victorian period.
Forgiveness in Victorian Literature examines how eminent writers
such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Oscar
Wilde wrestled with the religious and social meanings of
forgiveness in an age of theological controversy and increasing
pluralism in ethical matters. Richard Gibson discovers unorthodox
uses of the language of forgiveness and delicate negotiations
between rival ethical and religious frameworks, which complicated
forgiveness's traditional powers to create or restore community
and, within narratives, offered resolution and closure. Illuminated
by contemporary philosophical and theological investigations of
forgiveness, this study also suggests that Victorian literature
offers new perspectives on the ongoing debate about the possibility
and potency of forgiving.
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